African Americans and the medical establishment

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 280-281

  Smith, Cheryl ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; AIDS; History of medicine; Medical ethics; Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EPIDEMIC; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HISTORY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033190745     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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